Bar-jesus
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they
found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name
[was] Barjesus:...
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Elymas is another name for Bar-Jesus (arc. Bar-Yeshua, lat.
Bariesu), a Jewish magician who appears in the New Testament
in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13. [1]
Acts of the Apostles calls him a magus, which the King James
Bible here translates as "sorcerer". He is represented as
opposing Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas on the city of Paphos on...
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bar-je'-zus (Bariesous): "A certain sorcerer (Greek magos),
a false prophet, a Jew" whom Paul and Silas found at Paphos
in Cyprus in the train of Sergius Paulus, the Roman
proconsul (Acts 13:6 ff). The proconsul was "a man of
understanding" (literally, a prudent or sagacious man), of
an inquiring mind, interested in the thought and magic of
h...
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son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts
13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Paphos. Elymas is
a word of
Arabic origin meaning "wise."...
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